not an instant to be at the spots where his people were suffering most. The Red Cross Organization seems to have been prompt and efficient in bringing trains, doctors, nurses,...

which was beginning to get through to England when we went to press last week. In the early morning of July 28rd a series of violent earthquake shocks passed through the country...

Great Britain and India tA N Tuesday the Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that three or four members from each of the Opposition parties would be "full and...

on Tuesday afternoon. The members gave in detail their objections to the Simon Report, to which Lord Irwin replied sympathetically, making special reference to the importance of...

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stands and will unquestionably dominate the Conference, but will not be imposed upon it." It does not follow that no constructive alternative to the Simon Report has been put...

It is a pity that Lord Ullswater has had to tell the Prime Minister that the Parliamentary Conference on Electoral Reform has wasted its time. The repre- sentatives of the...

The powerful American Federation of Labour has promoted an agitation against the import of timber from Soviet Russia. It prevailed upon the United States Treasury to announce an...

melancholy reading. Great Britain, as a whole, has 16.6 per cent. of all her insured population unemployed. England has 15.8 per cent., Scotland 17.9 per cent., and Wales no...

of Supply had a most depressing debate upon our foreign trade. On Friday, the 25th, the House passed the third reading of the Finance Bill. On Monday some progress was made in...

The Canadian elections have gone with a swing against Mr. King, the Liberal Prime Minister for the last five years. Even in the Province of Quebec many of the old Liberal and...

Africa is followed by the announcement that a similar mission is to he dispatched to the Far East to study trade conditions. The growing co-operation between industries and...

arc daily being made, and especially those coming front the trainers of horses, will prevent the desecration or the Berkshire Downs by the R.A.F., who proposed to use part of...

struct the parties before the General Election. The moderate Conservatives are trying to get together in a strong party. The Land Union is trying to form an agrarian party...

service by publishing last Saturday a plain spoken article on Opium and China. Those who have lived in China lately may smile that we should need to have our eyes thus opened....

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1031 ; on Wednesday week, 103i; ; a year ago, 1003 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90) ; on Wednesday...

The Report of the League of Nations' Committee of Inquiry on Intellectual Co-operation submitted by Sir Frank Heath has not passed through the Plenary Com- mittee without some...

on the purchase of the " Bedford Hours," the famous illuminated manuscript made for John, first Duke of Bedford, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. No record of...

The airship R100' which many of its have seen making her final trials, left the country for Montreal at dawn on Tuesday in stormy weather. Only one British airship has crossed...

I T is welcome news that a new commercial treaty with Rumania is to receive this week the British signa- ture. By this treaty British imports will be placed on an equal footing...

I TALY is mourning, and the world mourns with her. Let her not doubt the sympathy of the British race. We feel for her and long to help her where an earth- quake has laid low...

TONE who know our London museums and picture gal- leries and who knew them some quarter of a century ago will deny that their treasures are now more attractively and more...

T HE disintegration of the Labour Party proceeds apace. Late at night on Wednesday of last week Mr. Wallhead moved to exclude the name of Lord Hunsdon from the list of Public...

THE recent debates in Parliament, and their continua- - 1 - tion in the Press, on the functions of the Royal Air Force, have tended to produce more confusion than con- clusions...

q111ERE arc times and seasons when both children and grown-up people will gulp information as trout take the mayfly ; but there are other occasions when they will refuse all...

M UCH has been written since the summer of 1929 about the Tenants' Social Centre, which was then opened on one of the larger South London housing estates under my control, where...

A LMOST everyone buys in the cheapest market, what- 11 ever the cost, though the " market " be ever so ugly and the cost be the " character " of a beautiful old city. Still even...

B the death of Lieut.-Colonel Henderson in the recent air liner crash, not only has British aviation lost one of the most gallant and skilful of pilots, but the world has lost...

EAeir time I go to the cinema nowadays it requires more courage than the time before. Colossal talking-picture triumphs are advertised, featuring well-known and well- loved...

A LETTER FROM ALGIERS. [To the Editor of the SrEcrieroli.] Sin,—The centenary celebrations at Algiers culminated in an official visit from the French President. Two of the...

Miss MCDGE, whose uncle followed law, Though she's reduced to village labours, Can still inspire with reverent awe The lowly circle of her neighbours. Why should she trouble to...

A man was brought before the Magistrate at Guildhall on Monday, charged with disturbing the congregation of St. Brides on the previous day. Sir John Perring, the Magistrate,...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association of Great Britain and...

Yet the land must have its value. Lcok for a trurent at the orchard of the Rectory. The apple trees are so many and so full of fruit that you would say they Would feed the whole...

So Mr. Seabrook, by whose name some of the best varieties of our soft fruits are now named, turns a cat-i'-pan, sells his extensive farms and concentrates on a few acres. A...

Agriculture have shown samples of tinned British fruits; the latest goods to be sold under the National Mark. I have been at some pains to investigate this more or less new...

into a paragraph, they are these. English fruit is the best and - " will always make more money by reason of its superior flavour, sub-acidity and general edible quality," to...

at his nefarious work of killing young pheasants, not in order to eat them but to use their poor little bodies as a lure for beetles. Further information on this strange habit...

The book does not deal at any length with fiscal economies ; but emphasizes, with honesty and insight, the value of imports to the market for English fruit. The point is rarely...

It happens to me in the midst of such fields and such memories to receive a little book called " How to Make £00 an Acre," representing a yearly profit in excess of the capital...

A FARMS COLLAPSE. A one-time owner of the land sends me sonic suggestive facts on the history of the farm to which I referred last week. Though the land . and buildings are...

Spa,—Mr. Vaze's letter in your issue of July 19th well illus- trates the need for interpreting the Simon Report by consider- ing its general spirit and tendency and not by...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--WC feel that the situation with regard to India calls fbr the most earnest consideration by all those who are...

for the criticism of my article on the " isolation " of Europeans in India and have paid careful attention to it. In answer to one letter I would state that I have consistently...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—In your admirable editorial on The British Empire, in your issue of July 26th, I notice that while you refer to Sir Robert Hadfield's...

SIR,—" I will call them all Maharajahs if only they will pay their taxes regularly," exclaimed the late Sir James Thomson, who was Collector of Tanjore when certain landowners...

Sin,—Mr. Vaze in his attempt to reply to my letter, has merely reiterated his contention without grasping my point. He fails to sec that the governments of the Indian States are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Edgar Barnes-Austin's letter, written from Prospect Road, Tunbridge Wells, suggests that the view from his windows is a gloomy one—or...

it is the voter not the politician who is in a difficulty. From the beg' g of eiviti,ition there have always been two schools of thought in op p osition to one another, the one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The note of optimism in Sir Edward Hilton Young's analysis of the new treaty with Iraq is fully justified. Those ho were intimately...

[7'o the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A cordon of cormorants, or " scarfs " as they are called here, hemmed in a vast shoal of young coal fish sellags in Wick Harbour the...

A NEW SONG. Sorry I don't know your song " Britannia Rules the Waves." It used to be :- "Britannic! Rule the Waves." —R. H. L., The Leeds Club. LORI, ALFRED DOUGLAS. As I...

[7'o the Editor of the SencrAroa.] Sut,—It is twenty-five years since I last visited England— years of momentous change in very many directions—changes in Church and State, in...

study in English of Stravinsky •s music in Stravinsky's Sacrifice to Apollo (Hogarth Press, Gs.). His was a formidable tusk, requiring, above all, a balanced judgment. This time...

Matter (John Murray, Ts. lid.) She has given her whole life to the improvement of social conditions. She has had excep- tional success in her efforts, and what she says has a...

in having collected together a body of information, which is otherwise only obtainable with great difficulty, regarding the operation of the censorship in this country. They...

As headmaster of Winchester (1901--11) and as Bishop suc- cessively of Southwark and Oxford, Dr. H. M. Burge was well known and greatly respected, so that there will be many...

will be found on page 173.)

Guide to Ieskdale (James Atkinson, Ulverston, 6d.) which gives excellent walking and climbing directions for this particularly beautiful district, as well as much essential...

Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best story of not more than two hundred words illustrating local belief.; and superstitions current in the British Isles. The...

know him intimately through his poetry, his novels or his son-in- law, as friend, magician and hero—should not read Mr. Donald Carswell's Sir Walter : A Four-Part Study in...

: everything must be interpreted in terms of some- thing else no analogy is too fantastic. Indeed, the pm-logical symbolism of the savage is direct simplicity when contrasted...

500 Criminal Careers. By Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck. xxvii and 364 pp. (Knopf. 21s.) THE present writer was in Toronto last August for the meetings of the Fifty-ninth...

Little Known England. By Harold Donaldson liborloin. (Bats- ford. 12s. 6d.) UNLIKE other works of technical interest or archaeological research, it is doubtful whether, in the...

Anabasis. A Poem by St.-J. Perse. Translated by T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) Anabasis. A Poem by St.-J. Perse. Translated by T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.)...

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As Registrar of Co-operative Societies in the Punjab, Mr. Darling has had exceptional opportunities to penetrate the mind of the peasant : his sub-title—the Old Light and the...

Shades of Albany : a Facetious Fantasy. By 1. NI. Parsons: (The Bodley Head. 3s. lid.) ALBANY—* Paradise in Piccadilly," as its devotees have called it—is not merely a building...

The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Vener- able Bede, Englishman. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Stapleton Student in Divinitie. (Oxford Black-...

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long and ten very short stories are awkward material out of which to build a book, more especially if the long story is in itself almost the length of a novel. It says much,...

his Puritan parishioners, was one of the founders of Boston, Massachusetts, three centuries ago. Thus there should he more than a local appeal in the attractive and scholarly...

Plato's Ideal Theory, by Sir James George Frazer. Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) fifty years after it was written, and to be able to say in the Preface, " I am encouraged to believe that...

to be the subject of The Pelican and the Kangaroo which is described on the cover as " a story for children, - by Erie M. Silvanus (Jonathan Cape, Os.). A Puzzle for Grown-up...

that a replica stands outside the National Gallery. The Jefferson papers relating to it in the Library of Congress have now been edited for the Institut Francais of Washington...

to Mr. do Selineourt's publishers, his Mr. Buffum is " a character unique in fiction, a dear, lovable middle-aged bachelor." We prefer to describe him as a character unique in...

Bell gives us in very handy form and simple language the ABC of the International Labour Organization. This booklet is a rade mecum for ail those who have sought to focus t h e...

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss G. Pitt, 8 - ti, 1Vymillain Crescent, N. 19, for the following :— Questions...

(Continued from page 167.) We have already drawn attention to the commencement of a monumental edition of Documents Diplomatiques Francais, 1871-1914, to throw light on the...

to English readers, as it contains the second part of a careful study of " Industrial Relations in the London Traffic Combine," by Mr. G. A. Johnston and Mr. T. G. Spates, and...

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited...

After a long period of quiescence in the banking world, so far as amalgamations and extensions of territory are concerned, quite sensational events have taken place during the...

Financial Notes BROADENING INVESTMENT INTEREST. THE investment sections of the Stock Exchange have con- tinued to show a firm tone, with some signs that investment interest is...

Interest in Brewery shares has shown signs of increasing latterly, and most shares have recovered substantially from the levels to which they fell on the appointment of the...

The speech of Mr. Andrew Williamson, Chairman and Managing Director of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company, at the meeting of that company's shareholders on Monday last,...

There are beginning to be signs that with the fall in the rate of interest obtainable on ordinary bank deposits, the handsome rates paid by the Building Societies are attracting...